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Title: Drawing juice while power is off?
Post by: greenone on April 26, 2004, 11:24:24 AM

Learned the hard way that the ADC-20 drains too much juice to leave it plugged in for hours before the show (which is why my BP-50 died on me on Friday).

Got me thinking about my V2, which I never had a problem leaving plugged in (but turned off...no on/off on the ADC-20, so I *have* to unplug it). I think I know the answer, but can the V2 draw juice while the power switch is off?

--Dave

Title: Re:Drawing juice while power is off?
Post by: jpschust on April 26, 2004, 11:40:08 AM

whenever you have a connection there you draw at least a little juice.  generally its not enough to be concerned about but you do draw some.

Title: Re:Drawing juice while power is off?
Post by: greenone on April 26, 2004, 12:28:45 PM

Cool, thanks Jonny. If I went months without taping (don't know why I'd do that ;) ) I'd probably disconnect everything, and then recharge the battery before going back out anyway, but it's good to know I won't completely suck the battery dry.

--Dave

ps. Welcome to the east coast! :)

Title: Re:Drawing juice while power is off?
Post by: scb on April 26, 2004, 04:26:34 PM

>>ps. Welcome to the east coast! <<

i must have missed that.  where on east coast?

Title: Re:Drawing juice while power is off?
Post by: jpschust on April 26, 2004, 05:28:30 PM

moving to DC in 3 weeks or so